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My breastfed child was lactose intolerant. Everyone (including her pediatrician) said her nasty symptoms weren't related to whatever I might be eating. Despite everyone's "advice", I cut dairy from my diet and sure enough the thrush etc went away. I continued to eat Indian food. (By the age of around two, the intolerance was gone. I'd eaten/drunk dairy throughout the pregnancy.)

I'd rather hear veg than sammie. (Actually, veg doesn't bother me at all, but sammie makes me throw up in my mouth a little. Well not really, because "throw up in my mouth a little" is another pet peeve so I was just trying to be ironic.)

When the Harry Potter books first became a monster hit in the US, I was with a friend who was reading it out loud to her young daughter. I truly don't like to embarrass people, but a laugh escaped at "Her me own."

Thanks biakbiak. I guess I won't be going downtown for a bit of celebrity stalking!

The bickering was ridiculous. Of course we all know spouses/partners bicker, but if they're hoping to adopt a baby, one would hope they would have the sense to wait until they were not in front of the prospective mother. I have a child who asks to be identified as "they". I am considered an out-and-out bleeding heart liberal by many of my friends, and have no problem with their (my child's) sexual identity, but as an editor it's like nails on a chalkboard. This is how I've always understood it. (Like the time I asked my foreign exchange mother when her baby was due. Yeah, not pregnant.) Also, mentioning something about a mutual friend that was supposed to be a secret.

I wonder where they're staying and where they'll be cooking? I'm happy they're finally filming in Portland/Oregon, but I wish they had done it pre-Covid because I'm sure they will be very limited in where they can shop/cook/go.

I'm rewatching (thanks Covid). I'd forgotten how much Karen annoys me, between her hair, her voice, and particularly how her mouth moves. She looks like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit when she speaks. (Sorry to be so shallow.)

The Always sanitary towels with the tagline "What the Gush". I know what they're talking about, but I really don't need a commercial highlighting it, especially with that nauseating turn of phrase.

It's confirmed, Nell is six months old: dresses like a baby, talks like a baby. (Does the actor playing her have no self-esteem?)

Why do families think it's cute to match all the children with, for example, rhyming names, all "K" names, or whatever. You may or may not want to watch this about how pigs reproduce. https://www.straightdope.com/21341237/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth. Truly a great man and a huge loss. https://www.timesofisrael.com/uks-former-chief-rabbi-jonathan-sacks-passes-away-at-72/

I've tried to do my homework by googling, but still have no idea what this means.

What are you binge-watching while waiting for the results? Anyone else pigging out (literally and figuratively) to Top Chef?

Please, for the sake of your mental health, and to stop feeding these sick cultures, remove these from your feeds and try to find something healthier to read.

Such a loss. And thank you for pointing me towards another escapist wormhole that might allow me to survive today.

Because of a recommendation, I'm kind of reading I Don't Know What You Know Me from - Confessions of a Co-Star by Judy Greer. "Kind of" partly because Greer's life is apparently unremarkable and dull. Also, I'm bothered because Judy Greer is not known as a co-star, but as a supporting actress - think Julia Roberts' best friend, not Julia Roberts' love interest. Since the whole premise of the book is about her being second tier, Greer's claim to be nonetheless a co-star irritates me unreasonably.

More like this:

I put on some perfume yesterday (a brand that is not common where I live, and that was a gift so not linked to my credit card) - lo and behold, an ad for said perfume has popped up on my Facebook feed. Freaky.

Well, most Americans pronounce pita as peeda, so there you go. The whole conversation about pronunciation is lose/lose. (Mary/marry/merry anyone?) Back to the show, when Laura was crying, it struck me that we don't see tears much on GBBO.

Perhaps they think of crescent primarily as a type of street, as in Mornington Crescent? (Points for those who get the reference.) And I'd been eating croissants and studying French for years before the names clicked. There is no single "authentic" pronunciation for the word pasta. Neither is there for taco. (Or neither/either, for that matter.)

Thank you for posting these. That first one is especially fabulous. (Maybe some mainstream TV channel will do the electorate a favour and have a "Sean Connery as James Bond" marathon on Tuesday.)

Anyone else think the guy at the end looked like a (younger) Steve Carell?

Thanks for responding. When I'm in a comparable situation, I'll sit next to my guy, but read a book.